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Unifying frequency combs in active and passive cavities: Temporal solitons in externally-driven ring lasers
- Source :
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173903 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Frequency combs have become a prominent research area in optics. Of particular interest as integrated comb technology are chip-scale sources, such as semiconductor lasers and microresonators, which consist of resonators embedding a nonlinear medium either with or without population inversion. Such active and passive cavities were so far treated distinctly. Here we propose a formal unification by introducing a general equation that describes both types of cavities. The equation also captures the physics of a hybrid device - a semiconductor ring laser with an external optical drive - in which we show the existence of temporal solitons, previously identified only in microresonators, thanks to symmetry breaking and self-localization phenomena typical of spatially-extended dissipative systems.
- Subjects :
- Physics - Optics
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173903 (2021)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2007.07533
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.173903